Edward Baker (rugby union)
| Full name | Edward Morgan Baker | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 12 August 1874 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | New Jersey, United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 25 November 1940 (aged 66) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Winchester, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Denstone College | ||||||||||||||||
| University | Keble College, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||
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Edward Morgan Baker (12 August 1874 – 25 November 1940) was an English international rugby union player.
Educated at Keble College, Oxford, Baker gained blues for rugby every year from 1893 to 1896. He was a Midland Counties representative player and gained seven England caps as a three-quarter.[1][2]
Baker, ordained as a priest in 1898, took up an invitation from the Archbishop of Brisbane to become warden of St John's College in 1912, then from 1919 to 1932 served as headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lyttelton, Robert Henry (1913). Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools. W. Southwood. p. 244.
- ^ "E. M. Baker The Oxford Three Quarter". Echo (London). 19 October 1895.
- ^ "The Rev. E. M. Baker". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 February 1941. p. 5 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
[edit]- Edward Baker at ESPNscrum